Assignment 2: The Healthcare Market Due Week 6 and worth 240 points Use the Internet or Strayer online database to research the current health care delivery structures—both private and public—within your state. Write a 6-8 page paper in which you: Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare market power. Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation. Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response. Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own state. Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health plan itself. Use at least five (5) current references. Three of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.  Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.  The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Explain how selected economic principles apply to the health care market and the provision of health care services. Analyze the factors that are influencing the demand and supply of health care services in the U.S. Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality, and access to care. Use technology and information resources to research issues in health economics. Write clearly and concisely about health economics using proper writing mechanics. Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Points: 240 Assignment 2: The Healthcare Market Criteria Unacceptable Below 70% F Fair 70-79% C Proficient 80-89% B Exemplary 90-100% A 1. Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare market power. Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the current health care delivery structure in your state. Did not submit or incomplete.

1. Assignment 2: The Healthcare Market
Due Week 6 and worth 240 points
Use the Internet or Strayer online database to research the
current health care delivery structures—both private and
public—within your state.
Write a 6-8 page paper in which you:
Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state.
Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare
market power.
Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare
delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors
that influence the fundamental manner in which these
competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality
of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects,
respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of
view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a
patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.
Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives
available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in
your own state.
Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment
system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health
plan itself.
Use at least five (5) current references. Three of these
references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to
support and substantiate your comments and perspectives.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size
12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references
must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your
professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the
date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in

2. the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
Explain how selected economic principles apply to the health
care market and the provision of health care services.
Analyze the factors that are influencing the demand and supply
of health care services in the U.S.
Assess current economic trends that influence the cost, quality,
and access to care.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in
health economics.
Write clearly and concisely about health economics using
proper writing mechanics.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality,
logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing
skills, using the
following rubric.
Points: 240
Assignment 2: The Healthcare Market
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1.
Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state.
Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare
market power.
Weight: 15%

3. Did not submit or incompletely analyzed
the current health care delivery structure in your state. Did not
submit or incompletely compared and contrasted the major
determinants of healthcare market power.
Partially analyzed
the current health care delivery structure in your state.
Partially
compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare
market power.
Satisfactorily analyzed
the current health care delivery structure in your state.
Satisfactorily
compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare
market power.
Thoroughly analyzed
the current health care delivery structure in your state.
Thoroughly
compared and contrasted the major determinants of healthcare
market power.
2.
Analyze the main competitive forces in the your healthcare
delivery system in your state, and compare the major factors
that influence the fundamental manner in which these
competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality
of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.

4. Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely analyzed
the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery
system in your state; did not submit or incompletely compared
the major factors that influence the fundamental manner in
which these competitive forces determine prices, supply and
demand, quality of care, consumerism, and providers’
compensation.
Partially analyzed
the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery
system in your state; partially compared the major factors that
influence the fundamental manner in which these competitive
forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality of care,
consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
Satisfactorily analyzed
the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery
system in your state; satisfactorily compared the major factors
that influence the fundamental manner in which these
competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality
of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
Thoroughly analyzed
the main competitive forces in the your healthcare delivery
system in your state; thoroughly compared the major factors
that influence the fundamental manner in which these
competitive forces determine prices, supply and demand, quality
of care, consumerism, and providers’ compensation.
3.
Evaluate the positive benefits and negative aspects,
respectively, of HMO managed care from the provider’s point of
view—i.e., a physician and a healthcare facility—and from a
patient’s point of view. Provide a rationale for your response.

5. Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely evaluated
the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO
managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a
physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point
of view. Did not submit or incompletely provided a rationale for
your response.
Partially evaluated
the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO
managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a
physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point
of view.
Partially
provided a rationale for your response.
Satisfactorily evaluated
the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO
managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a
physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point
of view.
Satisfactorily
provided a rationale for your response.
Thoroughly evaluated
the positive benefits and negative aspects, respectively, of HMO
managed care from the provider’s point of view—i.e., a
physician and a healthcare facility—and from a patient’s point
of view.
Thoroughly

6. provided a rationale for your response.
4.
Assess the efficiency of the types of economic incentives
available to providers in the delivery of healthcare services in
your own state.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely assessed
the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to
providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own
state.
Partially assessed
the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to
providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own
state.
Satisfactorily assessed
the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to
providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own
state.
Thoroughly assessed
the efficiency of the types of economic incentives available to
providers in the delivery of healthcare services in your own
state.
5.
Propose who bears the financial risk of a capitation payment
system: the provider, the patient, or the consumer-driven health
plan itself.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely
Partially

7. Satisfactorily
Thoroughly
6.
5
references (or number in the assignment)
Weight: 5%
No references provided
Does not meet the required number of references; some or all
references poor quality choices.
Meets number of required references; all references high quality
choices.
Exceeds number of required references; all references high
quality choices.
7.
Writing Mechanics, Grammar, and Formatting
Weight: 5%
Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation,
or formatting.
Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or
formatting.
Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, or
formatting.
Error free or almost error free grammar, spelling, punctuation,
or formatting.
8.
Appropriate use of APA in-text citations and reference section
Weight: 5%
Lack of in-text citations and / or lack of reference section.
In-text citations and references are provided, but they are only
partially formatted correctly in APA style.
Most in-text citations and references are provided, and they are
generally formatted correctly in APA style.

8. In-text citations and references are error free or almost error
free and consistently formatted correctly in APA style.
9.
Information Literacy/Integration of Sources
Weight: 5%
Serious errors in the integration of sources, such as intentional
or accidental plagiarism, or failure to use in-text citations.
Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of
quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques of
quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of
quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
10.
Clarity and Coherence of Writing
Weight: 5%
Information is confusing to the reader and fails to include
reasons and evidence that logically support ideas
Information is partially clear with minimal reasons and
evidence that logically support ideas
Information is mostly clear and generally supported with
reasons and evidence that logically support ideas
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